The need for privacy and modesty in bathrooms is for both sexes. 'Shared' bathrooms in France that I have encountered have totally private stalls with floor to ceiling doors and solid walls. The sinks are in a shared space. North American bathrooms were never set up for true privacy or safety, they were built to be easy to clean.
Until that changes these norms should stay in place for everyone's *comfort and dignity.*
What's missing is the *consent* of everyone else who uses that facility.
These 'supports' for some are already deterrents to full participation in life and sport and society for others, and those others are mostly females. Until we get over the Cultural norm of wrecking female lives on the emotional whim of a single Male single sex bathrooms need to stay.
What is missing from the transgender bathroom debate
The need for privacy and modesty in bathrooms is for both sexes. 'Shared' bathrooms in France that I have encountered have totally private stalls with floor to ceiling doors and solid walls. The sinks are in a shared space. North American bathrooms were never set up for true privacy or safety, they were built to be easy to clean.
Until that changes these norms should stay in place for everyone's *comfort and dignity.*
What's missing is the *consent* of everyone else who uses that facility.
These 'supports' for some are already deterrents to full participation in life and sport and society for others, and those others are mostly females. Until we get over the Cultural norm of wrecking female lives on the emotional whim of a single Male single sex bathrooms need to stay.